Building the image with mokomake file

Nicola Mfb nicola.mfb at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 23:23:51 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Mike Westerhof
(mwester)<mwester at dls.net> wrote:
[...]
>> Mike may you elaborate?
>> as before there were less restrictions, are you saying that someone
>> changed the busybox defconfig in OE and all branches merged that
>> automatically?
>
> Basically, yes.  All the OM distros built with openembedded are based on
> the Angstrom distro, and inherited the preferred busybox version and
> defconfig used by Angstrom.  There may be very sound reasons for the
> current busybox restrictions -- perhaps Angstrom wishes to default to a
> very small busybox for some very small hardware that it supports -- but
> there is no reason that each OM distro cannot have its own defconfig
> that is a superset of the base Angstrom defconfig.
>
> Mike (mwester)

Thanks! I got your point.
+1 to create specific configuration for SHR and OM2009, this should
prevent future "upstream" changes too.

Regards

    Nicola



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